1. Antoine Tadros ISM 158 05/04/2010 Spring 2010 Now offers find my iPad

2.  A cloud computing service offered by Apple to iPhone, iPad, Mac, and PC owners.  Offers push email, push contacts, and push calendar events.  Allows for the creation of an online photo gallery.  Store and share files online so you can access them anytime from a Mac, PC, iPhone, or iPad.  iDisk also lets you share files that are too big to email.

3.  Virtual servers available over the Internet.  The software programs are stored on these servers accessed via the Internet, typically within a web browser. (In our case Me.com)  The browser accesses the web-based application and an instance of the application is opened within the browser window.  The web-based application operates and behaves like a standard desktop application except the application and the working documents remain on the host's cloud servers.

4.  MobileMe pushes essential information to iPhone users over the air, including e-mail, contacts, and calendars, in order to make sure all your essential information remains in sync with iPhone, iPod Touch, Macs, and PCs.  MobileMe provides a suite of elegant, ad-free Web applications that deliver a desktop-like experience through any modern browser.  MobileMe applications include Mail, Contacts, and Calendar, as well as Gallery for viewing and sharing photos and iDisk for storing and exchanging documents online.

5.  Removes the need to manually check e-mail and wait for downloads.  Push also keeps contacts and calendars continuously up-to- date so that changes made on one device are automatically pushed up to the cloud and down to other devices.  Gallery users can upload, rearrange, rotate, and title photos from any browser.  Post photos directly from an iPhone; allow visitors to download print quality images; and contribute photos to an album.  MobileMe iDisk lets users store and manage files online with drag-and-drop. Automatically send an e-mail with a link for downloading large files.  MobileMe includes 20GB of online storage.

6.  “If you misplace your iPad, MobileMe can help you find it. Log in to me.com to view a map that shows the approximate location of your iPad,” the Apple Web site states. “If it’s nearby, have it play a sound to help you find it, or display a message on the Home screen to help someone return it to you. The Find My iPad feature works best if your iPad includes both Wi-Fi and 3G, but it will also find your Wi-Fi- only iPad when it’s connected to a wireless network.”

7.  $99 for an individual account which includes 20GB storage.  $149 for a family pack. That includes one master account with 20GB of storage and four Family Member accounts with 5GB of storage each.

8.  Sync Speed: There are times when a change takes an interminable length of time to propagate through the system to my other devices. Not often, but it would just be awesome if that never happened.  Storage Upgrade: Google offers gigabytes upon gigabytes of free storage. Even Microsoft offers more generous storage with Mesh, FolderSync and other Windows Live services. By comparison, MobileMe’s 20GB is inferior.  Price

9.  http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud- computing/what-cloud-computing-really-means- 031 http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud- computing/what-cloud-computing-really-means- 031  http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer- world/mobileme-replaces-mac-249 http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer- world/mobileme-replaces-mac-249  http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/apple _offers_find_my_ipad_with_mobileme_service/ http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/apple _offers_find_my_ipad_with_mobileme_service/  http://www.apple.com/mobileme/features/idisk.html http://www.apple.com/mobileme/features/idisk.html  http://theappleblog.com/2010/02/18/10-ways- to-make-mobileme-perfect/ http://theappleblog.com/2010/02/18/10-ways- to-make-mobileme-perfect/